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Interesting question with an interesting answer. If the result is truly an allergic reaction, then it is the response of the immune system (which is everywhere in your body that you have blood flow)...

When a queen first leaves on a mating flight, a large portion of the colony sometimes leaves with her and then returns (mentioned in a few of the swarm research articles I've been reading). The ones...

As for making your own extractor, http://www.voiceofthehive.com/VotH/15_1_Voice_of_the_Hive-Roll_Your_own_Extractor.htm is what I built (and I still have it). It isn't "production" quality, it isn't...

Think of it as a roll of the dice by nature - the investment in raising the extra queens has already been done, the number of bees to leave with most secondary swarms is small, and if the afterswarm...